How to Grow Your Chemical Lab?
Abdulla AlThawadi
Compression & Technical Services*Bapco Upstream*Petroleum Engineer & Operational Excellence Passionate* SPE Bahrain Section Chairperson
Regardless of the industry you’re operating in, an effective chemical lab is one of the most important assets you’ll have available in your arsenal. If your chemicals lab is not properly set up, or you aren’t doing things right, helping your lab grow will be close to impossible. You’ll need to consider several aspects, including lab design, cleanliness, maintenance, etc. to achieve skyrocketing growth for your chemical lab.
Let’s dig deeper into how to grow your chemical lab:
Offer Reliable Testing Services
One of the fastest ways to expand your chemical lab is to provide reliable and quality testing services. When clients rely on you for research questions, they expect extraordinary service. When you deliver quality testing at a fast turn-around time, clients will rave about your lab to their other partners. This can increase your business in no time.
Establish Your Presence in the Community
To grow your chemical lab, you will need to inform potential clients that you exist. From the very beginning, focus on establishing a presence in your niche. Look for ways to communicate information about your services, experience, and values. When more people understand the value you are offering, nothing can stop you from gaining more business and creating long lasting relationships.
Repairs and Maintenance
Over time, your chemical lab equipment will wear out and stop working. To keep growing, your chemical lab needs to be well-maintained during its life.
Instead of disposing failing equipment right away, take the time to determine whether the items can be repaired or their parts can be replaced. When you examine them, you’ll be amazed by how often the instruments can be updated, precluding the need to dispose of them. This is particularly true for larger items. You can effectively increase their lifespan with some repair and maintenance, keeping your costs low.
Individual Lab Workstations
In a lab environment, providing everyone with a separate workstation can improve efficiency. Depending on the purpose of the chemical lab, such as lab design can make is easier for employees to get the work done or students to complete their projects. When upgrading the design for your chemical lab, consider using epoxy for lab cabinets, counter tops, and other workstation items. Epoxy is highly resistant to chemicals and heat, making it an excellent choice for your chemical lab.
Calibration
Not regularly calibrating chemical lab equipment is the major cause of inaccuracy of data. This oversight can bring lab experiments to a halt. On top of that, wherever hazardous chemicals are used, regular calibration helps improve lab safety.
Therefore, you should manage the inventory of your lab equipment and undertake preventive maintenance and more advanced data accuracy verification regularly. Calibrating the equipment forms part of preventive maintenance that will keep your lab in optimal functioning condition. All these aspects actively contribute to chemicals lab growth.
Conclusion
To sum it up, growing a chemical lab takes a lot of planning and proper resource allocation. From making your presence known to updating workstations and carrying out regular cleaning to calibrating lab equipment, you need to improve efficiency at various levels. We hope that the above-recommended tips answer your question ‘how to grow your chemical lab?’
Yours in Operational Excellence
Abdulla AlThawadi
Chemist at Bapco Energies.. Upstream
3 年Great article Abu Hassan ..